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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
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Category Archives: Cinema
Showgirls Revisited: An Interview with Adam Nayman, author of “It Doesn’t Suck”
Editors Sean Beaudoin and J.M. Blaine discuss the train wreck that is (was?) the movie Showgirls with Adam Nayman, author of “It Doesn’t Suck.” Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Nayman, basic instinct, Busby berkley, Elizabeth Berkley, flashdance, Gina Gershon, it doesn't suck, jagged edge, Jessie Spano, JM Blaine, Joe Eszterhaus, Kelly Kapowski, Kyle Maclachlan, Mel Gibson, nomi malone, paul verhoeven, robocop, Saved By The Bell, screech, Sean Beaudoin, Showgirls, spetters, starship troopers, Veronica Lake
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Losing Faith in the Gleam
Nathaniel Missildine on Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Lane, and the function of movie stars. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema
Tagged Anthony Lane, backlash, Esther Breger, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson, The New Republic, the New Yorker
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“Blue is the Warmest Color” and Cinema’s Sex Revolution
How should sex be depicted in film? Are there boundaries that simply shouldn’t be crossed? Jeremy Polacek untangles these questions and more, in a discussion of the ever-divisive movie Blue is the Warmest Color. Continue reading
The New Era of Movie Beefcake
Justin Hall documents the rise (pun intended) of the hot male action star in contemporary film. Where has all the cheesecake gone? Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Popular Culture
Tagged bechdel rule, comics, DC, hugh jackman daniel craig, James Bond, Man of Steel, Marvel, Movie Bears, movies, Pacific Rim, star trek, superman, thor, Wonder Woman
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On The Hunt for Planes, Trains and…Candy-O?
Patrick Wensink goes trick-or-treating and digs up a trove of movie/musical mashups. From Arcade Fire to Candy-o Continue reading
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Tagged Arcade Fire, Black Orpheus, Goonies, Movie syncs, Pink Floyd, Reflektor, The Wizard of Oz
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Don’t Make Me Repeat Myself
A marathon session of Werner-Herzog watching teaches Brian Kelly about repetition, life and habit from Aguirre to Fitzcarraldo and Kelly’s own more mundane existence. Continue reading
The Hero’s Tale: The Conclusion of My Year of Horror
When is a myth like a horror movie or when is reality like a myth? Tom Gualtieri concludes his year of horror with five films that send their heroes into the darkness. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, My Year of Horror
Tagged Apocalypse Now, Danse Macabre, Deliverance, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Hour of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman, John Boorman, John Voight, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Conrad, Liv Ullman, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow, Mother, Pan's Labyrinth, Stephen King
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